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    Don Carlos

    (Original Paris Version)

     

    2015 Sarasota Opera Production

    March 7, 12, 15m, 18, 21m, 24

     

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    Opera In Five Acts, Sung In French
    Words by Joseph Méry And Camille Du Locle
    Based On The Play Don Carlos, Infant Von Spanien 

    By Friedrich Schiller

     

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    Conductor

    Victor DeRenzi


    Stage Director

    Stephanie Sundine


    Scenic Designer

    David P. Gordon


    Costume Coordinator

    Howard Tsvi Kaplan


    Lighting Designer

    Ken Yunker


    Hair And Make-Up Designer

    Dawn Rivard


    Chorus Master

    Roger L. Bingaman


    Assistant Conductors

    John F. Spencer IV, Stefano Sarzani,

    Michael Spassov, Christopher Ray


    Surtitle Supplier

    Words For Music


    Surtitle Translator

    Victor DeRenzi

     

    Production Created By Sarasota Opera

     

     

    Cast

     


    Philippe II, King of Spain

    Kevin Short


    Don Carlos, Infante of Spain

    Jonathan Burton


    Rodrigue, Marquis de Posa

    Marco Nisticò


    The Grand Inquisitor

    Young Bok Kim


    Élisabeth de Valois

    Michelle Johnson


    The Princess Eboli

    Mary Phillips


    Thibault, Élisabeth de Valois' page

    Riley Svatos*


    The Countess of Aremberg

    Brittany Hebel*


    The Count of Lerme

    Jon Jurgens*

     

    A royal herald

    Peter Drackley*


    A celestial voice

    Jennifer Townshend*

     

    A monk

    Tyler Putnam*


    Flemish deputies

    Jeremiah Johnson*, Eric Lindsey*, Tyler Putnam*, 

    Joseph Ryan*,Kenneth Stavert*, Constandinos Tsourakis*

     

    * Studio Artist

     

    Sarasota Opera Orchestra
    Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice And Studio Artists

     

     

    Reviews

     

     

    “What’s the recipe for grand opera? Take a soupcon of historic fact and mix well with large dollops of passion and heaping portions of great music. Then add fine singers, instrumentalists, appropriate costumes, scenery, a stage director with a vision and a conductor with the grit of a field marshal and, voila: Don Carlos, in just four hours and 30 minutes, two intermissions and five acts of glory.”
    —June LeBell, The Observer

     

    "No matter which way you look at it, the Sarasota Opera’s production of the original 1867 full-length Paris version of Verdi’s grand “Don Carlos” is an astonishing achievement." 

    "Most reviews start with the lead vocalists, but in this case I must honor the entire chorus and the magnificent orchestra under the direction of Victor DeRenzi. In all cases, purely sublime, providing a solid foundation on which soloists could make their mark."

    - Gayle Williams, Herald-Tribune

     

    "Victor DeRenzi, however, demonstrated his Verdian mastery once again in every bar. Sarasota Opera’s Artistic Director consistently made manifest the remarkable originality and variety of this score, supported the singers alertly in the individual arias, and putting across the music’s power in ensemble scenes. With superb playing from the orchestra, DeRenzi brought stirring pomp and majesty to the auto-da-fe scene, and the extended prelude for horns that opens Act 2 sounded almost Wagnerian. The robust choral singing under the direction of Roger L. Bingaman was on the same high level."

    - Lawrence A. Johnsons, The Classical Review

     

    "More is always better when it comes to Verdi at Sarasota Opera. Never has that been as true as with Don Carlos, the highlight of the winter season and a landmark in the company’s quest to perform every note the composer wrote. When Sarasota’s twenty-eight-year Verdi Cycle concludes in 2016 with Aida and The Battle of Legnano, it will have encompassed his twenty-seven operas, plus a half dozen major revisions. As the grandest of Verdi’s French operas, Don Carlos is a monumental undertaking in whatever version is done — there are five basic versions — and the Sarasota production was the biggest of all. Under the baton of artistic director Victor DeRenzi, the company performed the five-act score Verdi wrote for the 1867 premiere in Paris, including sections he cut before opening night so that operagoers could catch the last train to the suburbs."

    - John Fleming, Opera News

     

    (Photos: Rod Millington / Sarasota Opera)

     

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